· Private foundation
The Cameron Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST SACRAMENTO ROTARY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $9,500 |
| RIVER CITY HIGH SCHOOL WATER POLO | $4,700 |
| WEST SACRAMENTO DOLPHINS SWIM TEAM (WSST) | $3,750 |
| HEAVENLY BOOSTERS | $2,500 |
| WEST SACRAMENTO ROTARY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| GEORGETOWN DIVIDE ROTARY FOUNDATION RYLA AND REGL CAMPS | $1,000 |
| GEORGETOWN DIVIDE ROTARY FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM | $1,000 |
| MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Cameron Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 87% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- WSWEST SACRAMENTO SWIM TEAM INC2× · 2021–2023 · $16k · revenue +372%
- NCNORTHERN CALIFORNIA PEACE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION SCH3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +120%
- FOFRIENDS OF FELINES RESCUE2× · 2021–2022 · $14k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- WSWEST SACRAMENTO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue +10%
- SLSACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHESgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +33%
- SHSHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2017 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Animal welfare
Animal rescue of abandoned cats and dogs
animal welfare
reduce and manage feral cat colonies
Friends of the Chico Animal Shelter raises funds for the Chico Animal Shelter medical fund.
Care for retired police canine dogs.
Rescue and placement of canines
To provide free veterinary care
Together with Animal Care and Regulation staff, TEAM Volunteers strive to: Increase adoptions of eligible animals, improve public awareness of animal care and responsbility issues, including the importance of spaying and neutering, raise…
To decrease the cat overpopulation in solano county by providing low cost spay and neuter services for feral, stray, and pet cats. the purpose for which the organization is formed is to provide widespread community outreach, and innovated…
Care and rescue of feral and abandoned kittens and cats
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacramento Area Fire Fighters Benevolent Fund and the most unlike its peers is Chicks in Crisis Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WIDE OPEN WALLS ↗
- Who funds WEST SACRAMENTO SWIM TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PEACE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION SCH ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FELINES RESCUE ↗
- Who funds The Chester Foundation ↗
- Who funds WEST SACRAMENTO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN DIVIDE ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Heavenly Boosters - DHSCMS ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN DIVIDE ROTARY CLUB ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO AREA FIRE FIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND ↗
- Who funds PUREBREDS PLUS CAT RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Chicks in Crisis Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Cameron Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.